S/PDIF, was Re: 240volts and ground hum problems.

[Budweiser [FtS]]

I have a lousy Philips DCC 600 digital cassette recorder. Its a typical hifi
peice of crap :( But in the manual its says the I/O is AES/EBU, and it has
the normal S/PDIF connecters (on RCA's). I was a bit sceptical about buying
it initially because of this, but i thought that S/PDIF was sony philips
anyway!!
I have connected it to loads of different gear without any troubles, so I
guess
it proves that SPDIF and AES/EBU can be interchanged safely in the right
circumstances...

bud

> >I heard S/PDIF and AES/EBU can just be connected, but I never tried
> >myself.
>
> In theory, there is not a whole swag of difference between AES/EBU and
> S/PDIF.  Apart from electrically speaking of course. All S/PDIF is in fact
> is a the same protocol as  AES/EBU but the sub codes are different. But as
> they say, the devil is in the details.
>